About this episode

Allison Sheridan interviews Adam Engst about the new menu icons in macOS Tahoe and the issues they present.

Adam Engst of TidBITS joins me this month to talk about the wonderful world of macOS Tahoe's menu icons. You may not have noticed, or you may not have upgraded to macOS 26 yet, but nearly every menu item in every dropdown menu on nearly every application now has a tiny icon next to it. In this discussion, Adam and I go through the fabulous blog post by Nikita Prokopov entitled It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons where he shows examples of the problems they cause. From indecipherable to inconsistent, there are a lot of problems. Join the Conversation: allison@podfeet.com podfeet.com/slack Support the Show: Patreon Donation Apple Pay or Credit Card one-time donation PayPal one-time donation Podfeet Podcasts Mugs at Zazzle NosillaCast 20th Anniversary Shirts Referral Links: Setapp - 1 month free for you and me PETLIBRO - 30% off for you and me Parallels Toolbox - 3 months free for you and me Learn through MacSparky Field Guides - 15% off for you and me Backblaze - One free month for me and you Eufy - $40 for me if you spend $200. Sadly nothing in it for you. PIA VPN - One month added to Paid Accounts for both of us CleanShot X - Earns me $25%, sorry nothing in it for you but my gratitude

People in this episode

Host: Allison Sheridan

Guest: Adam Engst

Topics covered

• macOS
• menu icons
• user interface
• technology
• design issues

Keywords

• menu icons
• macOS Tahoe
• Adam Engst
• TidBITS
• user interface design
• Nikita Prokopov

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TidBITS

Products: macOS Tahoe, macOS 26

Books & works: It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

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